The implementation of National Survey in each state/UT has been assigned to a designated organization which has presence in the state and has experience of working with the substance using population. These agencies are known as State Implementation Agencies SIAs.

Roles and Responsibilities of State Implementation Agencies :

The responsibilities of the State Implementation Agencies are as follows:

• Organizing state-level sensitization meetings with support of the State Govt. and coordinating with key stakeholders in the state.
• Organizing sensitization meetings with key stakeholders at district level with support of the district administration.
• Engaging data collection staff for household and RDS survey in the state assigned
• Assist the training agency in organizing state-level training for data collection and supervisory staff in collaboration with RTAs and RCAs
• Planning and executing collection of HHS and RDS survey data in selected districts as per the operational plan prepared submitted to NDDTC, AIIMS.
• Utilizing the grant provided by MoSJE for survey activities as per the guidelines and norms approved for this survey.
• Monitoring and supervising the work at the data collection sites
• Maintaining records for survey activities as per prescribed formats
• Preparing progress reports and submitting them to MSJE / NDDTC

List of State Implementation Agencies: